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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Tesla able to overcome his bad habit?

2. What trick did Tesla once play on his friends?

3. What did Tesla say would cure him while he was sick at the higher school?

4. What did Tesla say about his physical age while writing this book?

5. What about himself does Tesla say led to his success?

Short Essay Questions

1. What caused Tesla some reluctance in writing about his childhood?

2. What did Tesla choose to work on after he recovered from his breakdown in Prague?

3. Why did Tesla choose to write about his childhood?

4. What was Tesla doing when he made his motor breakthrough?

5. How and where did Tesla get his first job?

6. How was Tesla able to catch crows?

7. What did Tesla do to the fire engine that Gospic got?

8. What did Tesla do when he suddenly figured out how to create his induction motor?

9. What dangerous trick did Tesla once pull on his friends?

10. What did Tesla say about the Gramme dynamo, and what was his professor's response to this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The people in this book all had their own goals and motivations. Select four of these people and write their main motivation throughout the book and how this goal affected the others around them.

Essay Topic 2

What obstacles did Tesla face in the progression of his career, and what did he do to get past them? How did this change his outlook on life?

Essay Topic 3

How did Tesla go about choosing his career in life? What impact did this have on his future?

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